News and Media Title Filter by type Filter By Published Date From To Event Child Government Monitors Report The release of the Child Government Monitors Report was a huge moment for the Children's Commissioner. The report documents months of... Read more News Children Commissioner's Chronicles Issue 2 The newsletter is now, for the first time, available in English, Afrikaans, and IsiXhosa, the three official provincial languages. The... Read more News Children are eager to have a say in government budget decisions The CGMs decided to get involved in the Division of Revenue Amendment (DORA) Bill. The DORA Bill determines how much of the national revenue... Read more News Children speak on the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) ahead of National Children’s Day. The MTBPS is not child-friendly nor child-centred, yet affects the children’s fundamental lived realities. Furthermore, children are not... Read more News Three Western Cape child human rights defenders address the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland on the lived realities of children in South Africa. Three child human rights defenders from the Western Cape have been given the opportunity to address the United Nations Committee on the... Read more News Children Commissioner's Chronicles Issue 1 The Western Cape Commissioner for Children has just released its first newsletter- Children Commissioner’s Chronicles. The newsletter... Read more News Western Cape Commissioner for Children hosts a stakeholder consultation to unpack resource constraints hindering Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the child protection sector from providing needed services. As the country observes the Child Protection Week between 29 May to 5 June 2023, to raise awareness of the rights of children, the office of... Read more News Saadiq Daniels represents the Child Government Monitors in Switzerland Saadiq Daniels, a 17 year old differently abled Child Government Monitor from Bonteheuwel, attended the Pre-sessions 41 hosted by the UPR... Read more News Community Child Rights Workshops: Hessequa Municipality 2021 Community Child Rights Workshops is one of three child participation methods in our office. The objectives of our Community Child Rights... Read more News Annual Report 2020/21 The Western Cape Commissioner for Children’s first Annual Report for 2020/1 was tabled in Parliament on 17 September 2021. It details the... Read more News A year in review The Office of the Western Cape Commissioner for Children celebrates it’s first year. It has been a year of tremendous growth as we establish... Read more News Child Government Monitors Present at National Parliament Friday 14 May 2021 was a historic day in South Africa’s National Parliament. It was the first ever closed session for Children and Young... Read more News Learning in COVID times report Stephan Paulsen, our current intern, was instrumental in the #learninginCOVIDtimes project. He majored in Sociology, Anthropology... Read more News Child Rights Community Workshop Report 2020 We are super excited to release our second official report on child participation models implemented by our office. Child rights workshops... Read more
